The Dark Arts of Web Automation
Ominous, right?
The Web Is Now a Two-Way Street for AI
Yohan Lasorsa, Developer Advocate at Microsoft, and Olivier Leplus, Developer Advocate at AWS, opened their joint talk with a premise most web developers already accept: AI helps you build websites. Their argument is that the reverse is now equally true -- the web is becoming AI's runtime, its data source, and …
Your Digital Exhaust Is the Most Underused Dataset You Own
Your Multi-Agent System Isn't Failing Because of the AI
Sandipan Bhaumik (LinkedIn), Data & AI Tech Lead at Databricks, opened with an anecdote that set the tone for the whole talk. A single credit-scoring agent ran for two weeks in production without issues. The team added four more agents. Within days, 20% of risk ratings were wrong -- not because the …
When Every Team Builds Its Own AI Agent, You Need a Registry
Sonny Merla, Mauro Luchetti, and Mattia Redaelli (Quantyca) opened with a question that any large organization experimenting with AI agents will recognize: what happens when dozens of teams across multiple continents are all building agents independently?
RAG Isn't Dead, You Just Need a Better Starting Point
AI Agents Can't Walk Upstairs and Ask for Help
Juan Herreros Elorza (LinkedIn, GitHub), Team Lead on the Cloud Native Technology team at Banking Circle, makes a deceptively simple argument: the platform engineering practices that have always been "best practices" are now prerequisites. Not because they've changed, but because AI coding agents have become first-class users of internal developer …
The Security Cliff Between Local and Production MCP
Tun Shwe (LinkedIn) and Jeremy Frenay (LinkedIn), both AI Engineers at Lenses.io, gave a joint talk at AI Engineer Europe 2026 on what happens when MCP servers leave the safety of a developer's laptop. Their central claim: most MCP servers are built for single-player local development and collapse the …
MCP Tools Are Raw Material, Not Finished Products
Nimrod Hauser (LinkedIn, X), a founding engineer at Baz, opened his talk at AI Engineer Europe with a deceptively simple observation: public MCP servers ship tools designed for everyone, which means they're optimized for no one. When you plug generic tools into a production agent, the agent hallucinates URLs, saves …
Subagent Modes in Claude Code
A post making the rounds claims that Claude Code subagents share a prompt cache, making parallelism "basically free." It says you can spin up five agents and pay barely more than one. It lists three execution models — fork, teammate, and worktree — and says they all share the cache. Analysis of …